Our thanks also Buzz Ferebee and Michael Binns for their valued
contributions to several villas.

Our front page has also been revised to separate the
site content for Pompeii, Boscoreale, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Santa Maria Capua
Vetere, Scafati and Stabiae.

There is now a list and location plan of 103 villas in Pompeii and in the area between Vesuvius and Stabia at Villa locations. Most of these villas were
reburied after excavation and are not able to be visited and unfortunately this means that for these we do not
have any photographs.

The Villa Arianna custodians' were excellent, so enthusiastic about "their" villa and pointing out things to us that we would easily have missed.

We hope our pictures encourage others to discover its whereabouts and visit it.

Whilst we were there we were told about an exhibition at Quisisana which runs until the end of December. This exhibition appears to contain many frescoes and items from the villas, formerly in the Stabiano Antiquarium. However it seems you need a car to get to it and we did not have one so will try to visit it in December. Has anybody been to the exhibition or got any photos?

We have now added several new villas to our villas page.

Villa Arianna at Stabiae
The Secondo Complesso at Stabiae.
The Villa of Lucius Crassius Tertius at Oplontis

Monday, 2 November 2015

From May 30th to June 17th 2016 we will be excavating at 'Villa B' at Oplontis next to Pompeii in Italy. We will be spending three weeks in association with the University of Texas investigating the Roman Emporium (Villa B) at Oplontis next to Pompeii. The site offers a unique opportunity to dig on iconic World Heritage Site in Italy and is a wonderful once in a lifetime opportunity.

Cost is £175 a week which does not include board or food but details of where to stay are available (Camping is 12EU a day and the adjacent hotel 50EU).